A Revolution in Acting

The SITI Company's J. Ed Araiza is transforming the way Austin actors view their art

"...This isn't like watching a normal acting class. This is like watching a school of fish...."

April 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

One in a Crowd: Master Class

Tax-deductible way to back new local web comedy

"...Then you need to sign up for his Master Class...."

Dec. 12, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Acting Right, Not White

Grim Stats, Racial Taunts Won't Deter These Students

"...On the other hand, Andrea's classmate, Asia, 13, believes that knowing the bald facts on..."

Nov. 7, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Culture Class

The 2009-2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Mark Pickell, Killer Joe Acting in a Leading Role..."

June 11, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2017

Flatbed Press founders Katherine Brimberry and Mark L. Smith, choreographer Kate Warren and theatre / spoken word artist Zell Miller III join the ranks of cultural heroes

"...the institutions and providing the support for theatre, dance, classical music, and the visual arts – not just occasionally..."

June 2, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Texas Film Awards Class of 2014

"...With Luke Wilson acting as the master of ceremonies, the 14th annual Texas..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Flatliners

This reboot is dead on arrival

"...that feels rushed and weird. It has an amateurish acting class vibe: Clemons’ nail-biting reads weak and contrived; Norton..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Mighty

"...with an accent that sounds fresh out of an acting class workshop and a role that practically screams, “See,..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Poetry in Emotion

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

"...comedic, Catmull has proven herself equally adept at the classics and original work. I first had the opportunity to..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Michael Clayton

This smart and thoroughly entertaining film asks the question of where a lawyer’s ethical responsibility to zealously represent a client ends and the societal interest in achieving justice begins.

"...when billions of dollars are at stake in a class-action lawsuit in which an agrochemical corporate giant is accused..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Inside Season 3 of Barry at Moontower Just for Laughs

The cast spill the beans on Bill Hader's darkest secret

"...get out of the killer's life by taking up acting - kicked off its third season Sunday night, but..."

April 28, 2022 Screens Post by Rod Machen

The Delta

"...all into his 85-minute debut feature. Sexual orientation crises, class and racial divisions, cultural aftershocks of the Vietnam war,..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Hours and Times

"...for a four-day holiday. Fact. During that holiday, the working-class, street tough Lennon and the upper-class, Jewish, homosexual Epstein..."

Aug. 7, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fair Game

The performances of Sean Penn and Naomi Watts make this film rendition of the Valerie Plame affair a study in acting.

"...have all the gripping suspense of an Urdu 101 class at Langley. Based on a pair of memoirs by..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Price of Glory

"...Jimmy Smits plays Arturo Ortega, scion of a Mexican-American, middle-class family composed of his loving wife Rita (del Mar)..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twentyfourseven

"...the yoke of Thatcherism. Hoskins plays Alan Darcy, a working-class stiff with dreams of renovating his unnamed town's decrepit..."

May 8, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Merry War

"...and bracing as a neat glass of gin. Unsung character-acting genius Richard E. Grant, savored by a small but..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Little Man Tate

"...keeps this movie on track. Then there's the marvelous acting debut of Hann-Byrd as Fred, the wunderkind whose usual..."

Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Who Is Stella Burden, and Why Are They Saying Those Terrible Things About Her?

When the Rude Mechs do a show about acting, they find madness in the Method

"...Meaning other than Stella Adler, the acting teacher whose approach to the craft – and specifically..."

March 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...ask – has left a void in the Austin acting community that has yet to be filled...."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Beast Beast

Lyrical look at Gen-Z life trips on its own good intentions

"...discussion. In the short, Shirley Chen's character uses her acting class as a way to strike back at sexual..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

From Dirty Sixth to the Texas Film Awards

Whether it's Barbie commercials or Booksmart, Kaitlyn Dever is a true rising star

"...I grew up in. It's where my love for acting began."..."

March 6, 2020 Screens Feature by Shalavé Cawley

Quinceañera

Don't confuse this Sundance charmer with My Big Fat Mexican Debut, for its farcical scenes of high hair and waltzes form a genial, light-comic prism for watching race, age, class, and sexuality collide in one of America's most economically and ethnically complex cities.

"...form a genial, light-comic prism for watching race, age, class, and sexuality collide in one of America's most economically..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Fun With Dick and Jane

The original version of this comedy was a little countercultural, a lot class-conscious, and a touch subversive; this remake is all farce when what is needed is satire.

"...with its times – a little countercultural, a lot class-conscious, and a touch subversive. This remake arrives starring two..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jason X

Although the serial killer Jason has been cryogenically frozen at the start of this 10th outing, the hockey-masked one ends up defrosting on a spaceship in the year 2455.

"...typecast in the industry. I wanted to flex my acting muscles, so I had asked my agent to talk..."

May 3, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Putting Himself 'Out Here'

Theatre Arts and English teacher Rick Garcia has put himself "out here," on Austin's fringes, n the off-the-map, lost-worldness of Johnston High School, to reach out to some of the poorest kids in one of Austin's most neglected neighborhoods and make a difference through that rare and vital cocktail: art and education.

"...I think that's real important. We have a beginning class that's reading [Luis Valdez's play] Zoot Suit. They're just..."

March 9, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Tru Artistry

With Jay Presson Allen's Tru, performer Jaston Williams takes a vacation from the little town of Tuna, Texas, with which he is so closely identified, to portray celebrated writer Truman Capote, and in the process reminds us what an actor of range and skill he is.

"...because most folks take a pretty casual view of acting, to begin with -- apart from memorizing all those..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Funny Games

Austrian moralist Haneke fashions a tense drama from the sadistic games people play.

"...and the frisson it engenders. Lothar and Mühe play upper-middle-class mother and father Anna and Georg, who, with their..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eve's Bayou

Actress-turned-first-time director Lemmons unravels a spellbinding tale that blends Southern Gothic magical realism and disturbing family drama.

"...slaves' descendants who by the 1960s have risen to middle-class prominence in a small Louisiana town called Eve's Bayou...."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Ciao, Professore!

"...teacher, Sperelli spends his time trying to keep his class together and entertained while assigning them compositions to contribute..."

Sept. 2, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

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